In this godforsaken era of feigned victimhood, is there any group less worthy of our sympathy than the Waspi women? Having been, rightly, denied compensation by the government in December, they are now threatening legal action unless they are given a payout. Will their entitlement never end?
It’s hard to know where to start with this dreadful campaign. Their name alone should be considered a breach of the trade descriptions act. ‘Women Against State Pension Inequality’ suggests they’re campaigning against some great disparity. Except they’re not. They’re just angry that the inequality from which they historically benefited has come to end. ‘Women Against State Pension Equality’ would be a more appropriate name for the group.
The decision taken in 1995 to equalise the state pension age for men and women was self-evidently the right one. Why should a man have to wait five years longer to draw his pension than a woman? If anything, given women benefit from a longer life expectancy, you could argue that men should have a lower pension age than women.
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